Village Scene with a River and Wooden Bridge

Provenance

Sold, Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, June 9, 1975, lot 39. British Rail Pension Fund; sold by Lexbourne Ltd., London, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1989.

Exhibition history

Austin, Tex., Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, 17th Century Landscape Drawings, January 17–March 7, 1982, cat. 16. Art Institute of Chicago, New Acquisitions: Old Master Drawings, Dec. 2, 1989–June 8, 1990, no cat. Art Institute of Chicago, From Pontormo to Seurat: Drawings Recently Acquired by the Art Institute of Chicago, Sept. 10, 1991–Jan. 5, 1992, n.p., cat. 8; also New York, Frick Collection, Apr. 23–July 7, 1991. Art Institute of Chicago, The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present, Sept. 12–Oct. 31, 1999, no cat. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 234, 238 (ill.), 315-16, 336, (ill.), cat. 84, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.

Quick Overview

Artist: Peeter Stevens, II / Flemish, 1567-after 1624
Date: 1595/1600
Medium: Pen and brown ink and brush and brown and blue washes on cream laid paper
Dimensions: 17.1 × 28.5 cm (6 3/4 × 11 1/4 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: pen and ink drawings
Place: Flanders
Department: Prints and Drawings
Credit line: Clarence Buckingham Collection
Accession no.: 1989.200

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.